And this is the reason I think complaints about Python's syntactic indentation miss the point: it's simply the language using what you should be doing anyway.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 8:13 AM Joe Monk <joemon...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Too many languages lack ELSEIF and strong closure. Fie on > the danglig ELSE!" > > Now you know why COBOL programmers always indented their code ... it helps > line up the IF...ELSE structure. That was of course before VS COBOL II > (Cobol '85). > > Joe > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 8:01 AM Paul Gilmartin < > 0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:16:56 +0000, Robert Prins wrote: > > > > >> w ..., and IBM rejected the original SHARE > > >> requirement for a CASE statement. > > > > > >But the SELECT statement that they added (before my time) later beats > the > > >crap out of CASE in C & Pascal. > > > > > Pascal CASE may have a performance advantage if it can be > > implemented with an indexed branch table. But how much does > > it matter? > > > > Isn't SELECT (I know Rexx, not PL/I) just an ELSEIF chain? > > > > Too many languages lack ELSEIF and strong closure. Fie on > > the danglig ELSE! > > > > -- > > gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
